I am sorry for writing this message in English as my writing skills inGerman are not sufficient to explain the outrage I had when I watchedyour coverage on the Timoschenko case on the Tagesschau program.

I would like to bring to your attention that both the narrative andthe coverage are extremely incorrect, one-sided, and invalid. I wouldeven say that almost every other word in the coverage is a lie and thewhole story, as it is represented by correspondents, is a KGB-inspiredpropaganda.

Frau Timoschenko is depicted as an “opposition Politiker” and “dereinzige Ikone der Orangenen Revolution”. However, the show host andthe correspondent from Moscow both forget to remind the viewers thatFrau Timoschenko was one of the most powerful oligarchs in Ukraine anda close business-partner of Pavlo Lazarenko, who was sentenced in theUS court for money laundering, corruption, and theft.

They both depict relations of Frau Timoschenko and the currentPresident of Ukraine as black-and-white. But they somehow both fail tomention that Timoschenko and Yanukovitch were close allies in theirstruggle against former President of Ukraine Viktor Yustchenko. Theirrelations back then were so close, that they were one step away fromformally declaring an anti-Yustchenko coalition in Parliament.

Both correspondents somehow failed to notice that Timoschenko hasalready lost a case in the American court where her government wascharged with money laundering, theft, and corruption charges.

Correspondents also forgot to mention that Timoschenko was accused ofbribery in Russia and was on the Interpol wanted list. But this case wasmiraculously dropped once she visited Herr Putin in Kremlin.

And the both correspondents failed to see that her company, UnitedEnergy Systems of Ukraine, owed hundreds of millions of US dollars indebt to Russian monopolies. And this too could be a sign of theconflict of interests when she was signing corrupt gas contracts in2009.

There are also multiple other statements in this program that do notmatch and sometimes contradict reality. Or, plainly speaking, aredirty lies Walter Duranty would be proud of.

I would be very glad if you take the above facts into account and yourcoverage of the affairs in Ukraine will adhere to the best standardsof journalism.

"My initial impression is that the tymshenko scandal is the tip of the iceberg that has the potential to expose the entire mafia universalis. There are so many layers, from high level crooks operating within the network, or on its out fringes, to the command center. The intermediaries would appear to be corrupt govt officials. They look like the players who juggle between thugs, crooks, terrorists, white collar criminals, and the control center's agents sitting on top of the network."